Selected press coverage of the Green Customs initiative

Cridem, 13 August 2007, "Atelier regional de Dakar: un engagement de lutte commune contre les crimes de l'environnement"

Greencustoms Workshop for French-speaking African countries, Dakar, Senegal, 8-10 August 2007:

Agence de Presse Senegalese, 10 August 2007, "Plaidoyer pour une cooperation internationale contre les problemes environnementaux"

French.xinhuanet, 9 August 2007, "Environnement: formation des douaniers ouest-africains a Dakar"

All Africa.com, 9 August 2007, "Produits chimiques illicites - l'initiative "douane verte" pour lutter contre le trafic illegal"

SudOnline.sn, 9 August 2007, "Lutte contre le trafic illegal des produits chimiques"

Le Mali.fr, 8 August 2007, "Les Douanes vertes" pour preserver l'environnement en Afrique"

Environment Research Centre, 25 July 2007, "Maldives participated in Green Customs Initiative Workshop in Mauritius"

Muelex, 25 July 2007, "Sub-regional Green Customs Initiative Workshop 23rd to 25th July 2007 for Indian Ocean countries"

BruneiDirect: "Training Customs Officers to Monitor, Control Ozone Depleting Substances", 7 July 2007, at the occasion of 3-day workshop

Fiji Times: "Danger lurks under bonnets", 31 May 2007, at the occasion of 3-day workshop on Project Skyhole Patching

Businessmen sentenced to 88 months in prison for scheme to evade taxes on sales of Ozone-Depleting Chemical, U.S. Newswire, U.S. Department of Justice, 22 March 2006

Green light for Green Customs Initiative. A method for strengthening environmental capacities' published by 'Tax and Customs News' (Uzbekistan)

Central Asian States discuss Green Customs Initiative, News and Events of Embassy of Uzbekistan to the United States

Green Customs Initiative Targets Environmental Crime, Nairobi/ Arusha, 14 November 2005

Customs officers need support to fight environmental crime, Tanzanian Newspaper, The Guardian

E.African customs officers to meet over environmentally sensitive commodities, by People's Daily Online (Xinhua, China)

Article on Green Customs Workshop in Georgia, 'News Georgia', 24 October 2005

OPCW Press Release, The Hague, 6 October 2005: "OPCW Chemicals Transfer Regime Workshop for Customs Authorities Concludes"

Regional Forum on combating environmental crime formed, world-wire, Bangkok, 15 September 2005

Stopping Traffic, Environmental Health Perspectives, Volume 112, Number 2, February 2004

UN launches 'Green Customs' project, imc India, 2003

UNEP press release, Brussels/Paris/Nairobi, 2 June 2003: "New Initiative to Combat Growing Global Menace of Environmental Crime"

World Customs Organisation press release, Brussels, 2 June 2003: "Importance of Customs role in protecting the global environment recognised by new agreement between the WCO and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)"

Agence France Presse, Frence (wire service), 2 June 2003, 3:55 AM Eastern Time, Nairobi: "UNEP forms partnership to combat trade in rare species, toxics" (story also picked up by TERRA.WIRE, )

UN News Service (news service), 2 June 2003, New York: "UN Agency Launches Project to Combat Trade in Illegal Chemicals, Endangered Species"

Xinhua General News Service, China (news service), 2 June 2003, Nairobi: "UNEP launches initiative to combat growing global menace of environmental crimes"

Greenwire (electronic news service), 2 June 2003: Eryn Gable, Greenwire reporter, "U.N.: NEW INITIATIVE TARGETS ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME"

UNWIRE (electronic news service), 2 June 2003: "UNEP Announces Drive Against Trade In Rare Animals, Pollutants"

Environment Daily, UK (electronic news service), 2 June 2003: "Project to fight "green trafficking" launched"

IRNA (news service), 3 June 2003,Tehran : "UNEP project to combat trade in illegal chemicals, endangered species"

IRNA (news service), 3 June 2003, Brussels: "WCO-UNEP sign agreement on Customs role in fight against environmental crime"

Environment News Service : 4 June 2003, Brussels:"Green Customs Initiative Offers Officers New Tools"

Accra Mail, Ghana (newspaper), 4 June 2003: "UN Project to Combat Trade in Illegal Chemicals, Endangered Species"

Le Figaro, France (newspaper), 5 June 2003: "Bafouer l'environnement en temps de guerre est un crime contre l'humanité", Caroline de MALET. A l'occasion de la Journée mondiale de l'environnement, le Programme des Nations unies pour l'environnement (Pnue) lance une initiative, baptisée « Douanes vertes », destinée à lutter contre le crime environnemental. Klaus Toepfer...

Edie news summary, UK (web magazine), 5 June 2003: UNEP DTIE's Robert Bisset interviewed on the Green Customs project.

UN Radio, Spanish-language service (radio), 5 June 2003: UNEP DTIE's Leo Heileman interviewed about the green customs initiative.

notre-planete.info, 10 June 2003: Le projet 'Douanes Vertes' combat le crime environmental

Mediaterre, juin 2003: Le PNUE lance le projet 'Douanes Vertes'

UNEP DTIE OzonAction Newsletter Number 44, June 2003: Environmental Crime and Environmental Security at the Border